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...keep his seat-and the Senate-in Democratic hands. It's impossible to know Torricelli's motives. Was it for the party's sake or did he think another shoe would drop? Whatever the reasons, no decision was made as Torricelli left that night for his farm in nearby Hunterdon county...
...system's capacity to identify an outbreak quickly and intervene early enough to prevent further spread of an illness. Effective prevention requires some investment, and this is more important than ever with so many newly emerging communicable diseases like E. coli O157:H7. JOHN BECKLEY, Director Department of Health Hunterdon County Flemington...
Ellen Weiss can hardly see. David Schmitt can barely hear. Together, the elderly woman, who suffers from diabetes, congestive heart failure and arthritis, and the widower, who is recovering from a hip fracture, slowly shift through the halls of Hunterdon Medical Center in Flemington, N.J. Typical victims of aging's cruelest blows? Not really. Weiss is actually a resident in family practice, age 30, and Schmitt a medical student, 26. They have been assigned roles, ages and infirmities as an innovative part of their medical training...
Role-playing programs give them a crash course. At Hunterdon, students' faces are instantly aged with cornstarch and makeup. Next the disabilities are laid on: yellow goggles smeared with Vaseline distort vision, wax plugs dampen hearing, gloves and splints cripple fingers, and peas inside shoes impair walking. Then the ersatz invalids are asked to perform common tasks: purchasing medication at the pharmacy, undressing for X rays, filling out a Medicare form and, most humiliating, using the bathroom...
Instant patients start out peppy and joking. "But by the end of a few hours, most say, 'I'm exhausted,' " observes nurse Linda Bryant at Hunterdon. Schmitt discovered that "a major accomplishment was doing up my collar." And, to his surprise, "I wound up resenting physicians who didn't realize how much medication would cost and how hard it was to go and pick it up." Weiss also had an epiphany: "I realized how little I talk to patients. I might ask them about chest pains but not 'Can you get dressed, eat O.K., take your medicine?' " At Long Beach...